The thesis studies the applicability of the HarrisTodaro model to rural-to-urban migration processes in …

growing up without parental care. This paper examines how parental migration affects children's health and education outcomes …. Using the Rural-Urban Migration Survey in China (RUMiC) data we are able to measure the share of children's lifetime during … which parents migrated away from home. By instrumenting this measure of parental migration with weather changes in their …

Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy … continues to privilege the migration of working-age individuals who often leave children and elders behind in the rural areas … living alone without any adult children in the village are most at risk of negative consequences of migration, while those …

invented anew by transnational migration networks in a globalized world. There is no evidence of the supposed superiority of … adaptés et inventés de nouveau par les réseaux de la migration transnationale dans un monde globalisé. Il n'y a aucune preuve …

measured risk attitudes and their consequences for migration. We also investigate whether substantial changes in the risk …

migration. The essential question is whether, in times to come, these four countries could be the new engines of growth for the …

This paper describes the Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC), a unique data source in terms …

Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking … destination areas. In this paper, we show that this temporary feature of migration can be linked to land rights insecurity. As … village land ownership remains collective and as land use rights can be periodically reallocated, individual out-migration can …